“Calvin Ponce, what exactly does The Hallowed Court want?” a sect elder shouted angrily at Calvin Ponce.
“Chillax. I mean no harm!” Calvin Ponce responded loudly.
“I’ve gathered you here today to share something good with you all!”
“Of course, before that, I need a small favor from all of you!”
“Just say what you want!” another sect elder shouted.
“It’s actually a small favor!” Calvin Ponce said, pointing towards Billy.
“I believe you know that Mr. Billy not only possesses the Heaven Book but also the Nine Dragons Cauldron.”
“These two items are gifts from heaven to our seventh-tier star domain and shouldn’t be monopolized by one person. I trust no one has any objections?”
“I want you to persuade Mr. Billy to share these treasures!”
“The Heaven Book can be studied by everyone, and as for the Nine Dragons Cauldron, I’ve heard it chooses its own master. Let it decide on the spot!”
“Whoever it chooses, the Nine Dragons Cauldron will belong to them. Everyone should agree with this, right?”
Hearing this, everyone turned to look at Billy with varied expressions.
Calvin Ponce clearly knew the art of speaking.
He never suggested that everyone should forcibly take the items and hand them over to The Hallowed Court. Instead, he proposed that everyone should have a chance to share the treasures.
He placed himself on a moral high ground.
“You are truly insidious!” the Cloudpeak Sect leader took a deep breath and spoke angrily, “Just with a few words…”
Before he could finish, Alfonso Ponce made a gesture, and the Cloudpeak Sect leader was sent flying.
In mid-air, his physical body perished, and a soul form emerged.
However, before he could catch his breath, Alfonso Ponce clenched his hand, and the soul form dissipated into nothingness.
His soul was annihilated!
“Sect Leader!” other members of the Cloudpeak Sect cried out simultaneously.
But it wasn’t over yet. Alfonso Ponce waved his hand again, and an image of the Cloudpeak Sect’s courtyard appeared in the sky above the stage.
In the next moment, a hundred Azure Guards attacked the thousands of Cloudpeak Sect members. In just a few blinks of an eye, nearly a thousand people lay dead, their soul forms not spared!
“No!” people from the Cloudpeak Sect on the stage shouted again.
“We will do as you say! Make them stop!” an elder looked at Calvin Ponce and screamed.
Calvin Ponce gestured to Alfonso Ponce, who took out a sound transmission stone and sent a message. The slaughter in the image then ceased.
Seeing this, the faces of those from other factions grew even more solemn.
The Hallowed Court was making an example out of them!
“If within ten breaths you haven’t started persuading Mr. Billy to share the two treasures, then I won’t trouble you anymore!” Calvin Ponce continued.
Hearing his words, everyone got up from their seats and walked towards Billy’s group.
They knew very well that whether they were willing or not, they had no choice!
“Miss Sanaa, sorry…” an elder looked at Sanaa and spoke.
“Do you really think that if Mr. Billy hands over the two items, The Hallowed Court will let you go?” Sanaa stepped out of her seat and spoke to everyone in a deep voice.
“Miss Sanaa, please forgive us. We cannot predict what will happen next!” another sect leader said.
“But we know very well that if Mr. Billy doesn’t hand over the two items, none of our sect members will survive!”
“Miss Sanaa, step aside. We don’t want to be your enemy!”
“Miss Sanaa, you can see we have no choice!”
“Miss Sanaa, don’t force us to fight you. Although we know we might not be your match, we can’t stand by and watch our sect members be slaughtered!”
Everyone spoke up one after another.
Although they kept talking, no one dared to make a move yet.
They knew very well that the person in front of them was once the number one in the seventh-tier star domain!
Although it was said she was injured and her power was far less than before, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. No one dared to be the first to act!
“Mr. Billy, I believe you don’t want to see Miss Sanaa fall into despair because of you!” At this moment, an elder named Jordan Flynn looked at Billy and spoke.
“Moreover, tens of thousands of lives from our sects are in The Hallowed Court’s hands!”
“Please, Mr. Billy, for the sake of these innocent people, hand over the Heaven Book and Nine Dragons Cauldron. I bow to you!”
After speaking, he bowed deeply towards Billy.
With one person bowing, others followed suit: “Mr. Billy, we beg you!”
“This is moral coercion!” Judge couldn’t help but curse.
“This is not what The Hallowed Court wants to see!” Opal frowned slightly and said.
She knew very well that what The Hallowed Court wanted most was for all twenty-four sects to attack their side simultaneously!
“Don’t talk so much with him; he won’t hand over the Heaven Book and Nine Dragons Cauldron!” Before she finished speaking, a man shouted loudly.
“Let’s attack together and take the treasures to save our sect members!”
As he spoke, he flew into the air and launched a series of powerful attacks towards Billy.
“Take the treasures to save our sect members! Attack!” Following him, another twenty or thirty people joined in.
Among them were several with mid-to-late Supreme Source Realm cultivation. They attacked with full force without caring about Billy’s life or death.
“Idiots!” Before Billy could act, Sanaa frowned and swept her hand out.
Boom! Boom! In an instant, all twenty or thirty people were sent flying back, all killed in one blow with their soul forms dissipating into nothingness.
Judge and others couldn’t help but gasp.
“Miss Sanaa killed them all?” Soul Chaser’s mouth twitched slightly as he spoke: “Won’t this cause public outrage?”
“If I’m not mistaken, these people were arranged by The Hallowed Court to stir things up!” Harleen responded: “If we don’t kill them, the consequences will be worse!”
“I see!” Judge and others finally understood.
“Miss Sanaa, you…” A sect leader frowned and spoke loudly.
“As long as I’m here, you won’t touch him!” Sanaa interrupted him.
“And I assure you that even if you get the Heaven Book and Nine Dragons Cauldron, The Hallowed Court won’t let your sects off easily.”
“Their goal is clear: they want complete control over the seventh-tier star domain. If you attack us, you’ll be playing right into their hands!”
“Miss Sanaa, we know you might be right, but we really have no choice…” another elder woman spoke up.
“If I were you, I wouldn’t waste time here!” Calvin Ponce interrupted her.
“I’ll give you ten more breaths. If I don’t see the Heaven Book and Nine Dragons Cauldron by then, you’ll have to say goodbye to your sect members forever!”
Powerful auras erupted from everyone present, enveloping an area of several thousand meters with chilling pressure.
The onlookers around couldn’t help but panic and started retreating involuntarily.
“Miss Sanaa, forgive us!” an elder shouted loudly.
As his words fell, members from twenty-four sects flew into the air one after another.
“Damn it! Bring it on! Who’s afraid?” Stout and Judge shouted simultaneously.
The battle was on the verge of breaking out…